Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:44737 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 68356 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2009 07:34:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2009 07:34:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.7 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.7 mail.jdi.nl Received: from [82.94.239.7] ([82.94.239.7:57156] helo=mail.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E4/BD-32019-0AAF25A4 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:34:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n677YrTH017388; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:34:53 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n677YUK6017298; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:34:51 +0200 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:34:30 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Ilia Alshanetsky cc: PHP internals In-Reply-To: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> Message-ID: References: <2D0F5226-EBCA-4B45-BF01-8ED1C643976C@prohost.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (jdi.jdi-ict.nl [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:34:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Type hinting/casting request for vote From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Last week or so there was a fairly detailed discussion on the internals list > regarding type hinting based on my original patch. Since then the patch has > been revised to address the major concerns that were identified (breakage of > binary compatibility) as well extended with additional functionality (object > hint, type casting, reflection support, etc...). > > The final patch is available here: http://ilia.ws/patch/type_hint_53_v2.txt > The test suit is available here: http://ia.gd/patch/type_hint_tests.tar.bz2 > > I would like to ask all developers to voice their opinions of whether it makes > sense to add this to 5.3 or to throw it away (either one is fine btw). To keep > the process simple & flamewar free, please restrict yourself to +/- (1/0), > next week monday I'll run a tally of the votes and based on the result we can > determine how to proceed further. +1 Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org twitter: @derickr